Secrets of the City

What? No mention of the Border/Frontera taco truck? Bite me, Heavy Table.

I encountered a pretty great taco truck a few months ago parked on the street at about University and Prior.

@jeffk: That’s the Frontera taco truck. Actually, there are two of them, I think, because I’ve seen one also parked up around Maryland & Arcade in St. Paul.

This food looks great, but the hours seem heavily skewed to mornings. Crossing my fingers that street food continues to grow in the TC and there will eventually be nighttime street food.

This is nighttime in Singapore:

Can’t upload pictures? Oh, crap. Well, then, how about we try it this way:

This is nighttime in Singapore.

Newton Circus, I presume?

Could you really call the hawker markets in Singapore street food? Weren’t they actually created to get the pushcarts off the street?

noodleman, street food, day and night, is one of the things I miss most about Asia. I seem to remember a lot of roti with sweetened-condensed milk, chocolate, and banana appearing at night. Now that’s what we have to bring to mpls. That, and soup in a bag.

Could you really call the hawker markets in Singapore street food? Weren’t they actually created to get the pushcarts off the street?

Hadn’t thought of that but the connection would make sense. Street food is street food to me, I suppose, whether dispensed from a pushcart or from a stall. I don’t think many satay stands had their starts as carts … or there would’ve been a serious fire-control problem.

I seem to remember a lot of roti with sweetened-condensed milk, chocolate, and banana appearing at night.

Never got into roti. Satay, biryani and mee were my favorites.

Newton Circus, I presume?

I don’t think so. Looks more like something I would’ve found around Tanjong Pagar.

(I just looked for Newton Circus and discovered the original location was demolished. Looks like there’s now a flyover over the circus [roundabout]. But it’s reopened elsewhere.)